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Is There a Procedure to Reduce the Size of my Eyes?

London4043Mar 7, 2011
I have large eyes and they protrude quite a lot They make me extremely unhappy because I love my face shape and my other features however my eyes simply pop out of my face to make me look constantly startled and surprised. A celebrity who has my eye shape is Alexa Ray JoelIs there anything someone with this eye shape can do to make appear smaller ?I don't have thyroid gland problems, I simply have big eyes :( I have researched into orbital decompression but it seems to extreme, anything else ?

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Dr. Toby Mayer, MD
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